more updates-
Finally moved the 2 story iron vent pipe and the plumber roughed in a working upstairs bathroom!
pipe was holding up the building of a staircase-
the drop ceiling worked out well-
only problem was tub placement turned out to be directly above one of the big beams, so we went with a push on and off tub drain instead of a more traditional setup to get around the beam. I have read complaints about these push button drains, but so far in use Im pretty pleased with it. I will see what happens long term. There is room for a traditional linkage setup if I hollow out a bit of the beam, so it can be changed if need be in the future.
the new functional upstairs bathroom-
iron pipe removed after new vent installed-
upstairs is just about ready for blue board and plaster, here is my recessed ceiling exposed beams setup. about 4 inchs of the beams will end up exposed. Hopefully after the work I did framing these out it will look nice, I hope so
bedroom-
and room with the new bath the exposed beam concept had to be integrated with the new stud wall, looks a little weird at moment
we made a closet space for the upstairs bedroom, so a door had to be cut, but before that, the wall has to be padded to allow space for a door frame and wiring like light switches.
Im getting burned by a local code saying a plug for every 12 feet of wall. This is a huge pain in the rear on the solid board walls, hopefully the inspector can let us get away with less interior wall plugs via grandfathering or something. A modern electrical box is twice the thickness of the interior walls in this place.
bedroom interior wall facing bath with cutout. I found a great closet door with a full length heavy mirror on the back at the salvage yard that also matched our door designs, so thats what will go in here-
other side stripped and ready to be padded for power. There are actually 2 plugs already in this wall, but they are dead and turn out to be using illegal boxes. I am hoping the electrician can adapt new wiring to the existing cavity that was already created-
the one original door frame we are reusing is going at the top of the staircase. there will be no door here as the frame is actually pretty dramatically twisted mating a new plum wall with the old wall, but thats not apparent unless you get out a level.
to cover up the ice cold foundation wall in the first floor bathroom, the contractor had a great idea for what will be a unique window seat that tapers to the door along the entire wall. this will be stuffed with insulation and a little heat in front of it-
with the bathroom finally moved, the landing has been constructed. I managed to save the downstairs tub which will now go into the new location downstairs bathroom. It turns out to be maybe 20 times heavier than our new tub. The toilet did not survive the dropping of the iron vent pipe-
more weirdness as to build a level 2 story wall for the staircase rectangle, a 2x4 wall that tapers down to a 2x2 wall is on the first floor, going up to a 2x3 wall that tapers to a 2x1 wall on the second floor
some garage related info-
Im being whacked by a fire code, meaning the ceiling and walls of the garage may all need to be 5/8ths drywall or plaster so fire can't get up into the loft and down into living space. This means my reduced but still impressive pile of **** needs further culling-
meanwhile the electrician has started up, and the plan is we are upgrading the house to a 200amp service, but putting in a subpanel in the garage next to the door. Hes going to do most of his wiring out of this box which is more convenient than the basement panel. This makes it easier later to run another subpanel out to the shed eventually. He has to rewire the garage and add heat detectors and whatnot as well, another reason for it having to be empty.
